The teenager had been due to attend her 8th-grade graduation on June 14, and when she didn't appear her family called the police
On June 14, at approximately 6:10 p.m. local time, Ahliana Dickey's grandmother"called Lowell Police to report that her granddaughter had been found, possibly deceased, inside her Lawrence Street home," a press release shared on the Middlesex County District Attorney's OfficeTrevor Bady, 21 of Tewksbury, has since been arrested and charged with fatally shooting Dickey.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Greg Hudon at a press conference."Shortly after midnight on June 14, 2024, Lowell Police received a call from an individual on Lawrence Street reporting that a male and female were fighting outside across the street. The caller reported hearing a female screaming 'get off me, get away from me, I don’t want to be with you anymore.' The caller also reported hearing gunshots," the release stated.
At the Lowell District Court hearing, the assistant district attorney said, "On June 12, 2024, confided in one person that this defendant made statements such as ‘I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill your grandma’ and that he was going to shoot up her house and that he threatened to kidnap her and shoot her," according to NBC10.